Theo to Sting the Hornets

Just a Quickie as BR is on holiday …….

Long internal enlivened by some fine performances by our chaps. Highlight has to be Ramsey who was superb for Wales – though Alexis’ 3 goals is quite tasty!

Watford: It is many years since I trudged from Watford main train station to the Vicarage Road – so long that all I can remember is that it was a sunny afternoon and we won. Let’s be honest, Watford, for all their Premiership credentials, are a small club. They have done brilliantly to get to 12th in the PL and I predict they will stay up but even getting a point today will be above the Watford fans expectations.

I was listening to a Watford fan (are they Hornets?) and his main positive about this afternoon was that Alexis will be on the bench following his transatlantic flights. Are we capable of winning sans-Alexis? We shall find out.

Assuming Mr Wenger gives Alexis a rest have we enough to win the game and who will play out on the left? Will the Ox get a start on the right with Ramsey coming infield and Ozil going left? Will Arteta start allowing Santi to play the Alexis role? Perhaps Giroud will start and Theo go centre left. Loads of permutations which bodes well for the season.

Luckily the French team have not woken up to the fact that Coquelin is the best DM in Europe – long may that continue.

Theo is in the best scoring run of his career and I see no reason why it should stop today.

My hope is that the feelgood factor following the MU thrashing has imbued the squad with enough positivity to see us win the PL title , the Champions League, the FA Cup (has there ever been a triple winner?), the Ryder Cup and the Islington bi-election. However, two weeks in football is a long time and beating Watford will do for a starter.

Scoring has been problem for Watford – they are the lowest scorers in the PL but they have the best defence! So on paper this will be a low scoring game.

If we keep a clean sheet we will win.

COYRRG

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Can I be honest on a man to man basis, you know, hombre a hombre and all that?

I’ll take your silence as consent then, should I? 🙂

On each occasion you have adopted the ‘they don’t expect anything more than a point’, or, ‘if we keep a clean sheet {also known as stop them scoring} we should win’ – and I have, admittedly, permitted myself a little poetic licence there – we then go on to ……. lose.

Despite our friendship, — and turning a blind eye to your latent, insatiable Viking urges to fleece innocent Yankee tourists, with your lurid tales of how Jack the Ripper frequented the less savoury areas of Copenhagen to bump off sweet, docile young female women — I will never forgive you, if we lose today.

Hopefully Crystals will come on to soothe the worried brows of all those doubters, like me, by telling us what the score is/was/will be. 😀

Thanks Raddy, we have to be careful not to sink into post intern’l complacency.

I listened an interview with Troy Deenie on TS.

He said “We’re not that stupid that we will try to beat Arsenal playing football, but I watched the chelsea game and they were successful by roughing them up, so that’s what I am going to do, rough them up – I’m good at that”

Well I hope the ref has been made aware of his/his team’s intentions. As Red Arnie keeps saying, England have no chance of winning the WC whilst that attitude prevails.

I hope Le Coq puts the cocky bastard on his arse and rakes his studs down his achiles for good measure. What kind of professional would come out with a comment like that?

On 25 June 2012, Deeney was sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment for affray for kicking a man in the head in a brawl. He was released after serving almost three months of the sentence, after showing his remorse, and since he was a first time offender.

Just because someone has been in prison doesn’t neccessarily mean they can’t change, however, if someone says that prison changed their life from thuggery but then makes a comment about roughing up other players, just proves that they haven’t changed and are still a thug.

Nice short PM Raddish the Norsman

How are the cheap beers and cheap women?

Oh and Redders…. is a woman is a female, isn’t she?

On todays game…. if we are making a serious effort for the EPL title, then strongest side plays and that means Alexis. As Wenger would say, take every game one at a time so he shoudn’t be thinking about the Krouts in midweek, which is only going to be a training game for us anyway 🙂

I will write to Oscar Hammerstein and complain, posthumously, on your behalf, about the ridiculous tautology he displayed in that stunning movie South Pacific!!

— There is nothing looks like a dame. And nothing acts like a dame. Or attracts like a dame. There ain’t a thing that’s wrong with any man here that can’t be cured by putting him near a girly female womanly feminine dame.

He’s got some nerve — but there is always someone to put him — and me — on the straight and narrow of English/American literature.

Morning all, Nice one Raddish,
Watching the new Liverpool Manager, His first Premier league game PM and he was all smiles and as cool as a cucumber, In a no lose situation thats why, lose and he has only been there two minutes win and he has made a big change. Brenda will be watching this one, hoping for a hiding, Didn’t like Brenda at all. but also not liking liverpool either.I am in one of those moods as i am not keen on Spuds as well, so a draw is about right.

Mcmanaman showing enthusiasm for his old club, bubbling over with how great a club and the spirit and all that bubbling crap. I have to say though, that when an ex Arsenal player talks about us, they seem completely calm and hardly enthusiastic do they,, as though nobody can be any better, than they was, so may win if they follow their advice.

Dont know what Asene drills in the players while they play under him, but it seems to me that they are getting trained in journalism as they all speak so calm and politely, and seem so unbiased..

Our game. We will win, i feel the only way we can lose this, is if the coach doesn’t turn up.

A high pressing game for as long as they can sustain it. If they don’t score in the first twenty to thirty minutes they are forced to ease off, that gives their opponents a chance to get into the game.

Spuds came back in the second half as Liverpuddle tired.

Klopp will have to improve their fitness and stamina if that’s how he wants them to play for ninety minutes.

Well most of the results today were fairly predictable… surprised with the Toffees though… thought they would have given more of a game to Man U.
Nearly time to get behind the sofa…. Arsenal need to get into the ‘Shot Zone’ with their Passes’,…. don’t they Chas?

We will play two thirds of the league against teams that pack their defence as Watford did pretty well for an hour and that’s were Theo let’s me down. Sanchez is on another planet and without him IMO we would struggle. Ozil and Carzola together with Sanchez have developed a great undestanding and Ramsey if he wasn’t playing on the right would add that little bit more of a threat
Both full backs are improving with every game.Coquelin is very assured and Kos and Mert aren’t the perfect pairing but will do for now.
I would like to see Theo and Giroud really fight for their place though potentially Theo has more improvement in him than the Frenchman.

At 3-0 it bacame a training session now on to the real test against BM.one game at a time but really the team practically picks itself.Will Theo or Giroud start ?

You knew the Hornets would run out of gas eventually.
Mesut’s passing and touch says it all.
Clean sheet, Cech is so calm, and that was with Kos in the back and looking rusty, but still good enough to clear their most dangerous chance. Mert did what he had to.
Coq just holds everything together back there, and Monreal is a silent game killer.
Sanchez Sanchez Sanchez
Theo offsides a few times for his only chances and Giroud comes in a scores…battle there for place.
Santi’s close control is a blast to watch, Ramsey’s stamina is insane and Bellerin is a bullet.
Great team performance and so enjoyable to watch!
Upward and onward…….

One of those games that could’ve ended 1-0 to them with us missing plenty of chances. Thankfully, we found our shooting boots second half and more importantly we scored first.

Good game to watch but their strikers caused us a few problems at times. Their finishing was awful though!

Glad Ramsey scored as he looked in need of a goal. Should’ve had one first half too.
If that was Sanchez tired and slightly injured then I feel sorry for anyone else we have to play this season!
Thought our full backs played well and contributed a lot going forward.

I must say when BFG is in the line up I’d prefer us to a be a bit more conscious of our flanks because diagonal ball pulling either of our centre backs out of position is worrying.

But today where we needed to commit numbers I guess it was a gamble worth taking. When we play City I want our full backs to only think a or defending no matter who is playing centre back. Bellerin v Sterling will be quite a battle I think.

I liked Ramsey today he showed some good touches and was clearly confident on the ball with lots of dragbacks and turns to keep possession. Ozil insist different gravy as is Alexis.

ha ha ha ha. Ollie has started scoring while Theo continues to clock barren minutes. I wish to see changes against Bayern. Theo is shiite at centre. On the right, maybe, rather than Rambo. But not central, please, Arsene. 🙂

Dear Rasp
Really sorry to “disrespect” your stats, but they are misleading. Last season they showed Ollie to have just four assistings in the entire season which is just so unfair, and frankly, paints the big poof in a poor light. Support our own I say

hmmm. Rasp. Agree on 2 very different strikers. But 3 out of 10 for Wenger for choosing the wrong one for this game. 🙂

GoonerB and others said Theo could not be judged earlier because he did not have sufficient minutes at CF. Now he has, and he has not been the prolofic scorer that we would have liked to see. Hence, Theo right of front three for me.

Bit like last year when Ollie was injured and Welbz filled in OK. This year, Ollie was lacking confidence, so Theo was brought in at CF. did OK. Been there, done that. Now leave it to the specialists, please. 🙂

Very true RA 🙂 he is currently in Poland to find out more about my roots, how very sweet 🙂 I’m not sure why he’s not blogging? If he comes back and says that there was no Internet there, we’ll know he is telling porkies

Red Arnie @ 8:37, Giroud was able to come and do what he did because our pace and movement up front had meant that to maintain their high press, Watford needed to cover so much ground that they had run out of steam by 70 minutes – hence, then bring on Giroud.

As Arsene said afterwards, we were patient. Tactically we got it right. Watford had only conceded 1 goal at home so far this season.

I think for most games it makes more sense to start with Theo and bring Giroud on than vice verse.

You can tell Arsenal has had a good game when there are several candidates for MotM. I stick with Bellerin because I want to acknowledge how far he has progressed and because he has the balls to run at and get behind defenders – but I can understand those that are calling for Ozil.

I also think Ramsey is worthy of praise because despite missing chances he’d hope to finish and getting stick from the crowd, he continued to put himself in the firing line. His work rate is phenomenal and his desire to get into scoring positions is what makes him a proper box to box midfielder.

One participant deserves a mention and a modicum of praise, largely anonymous throughout the game he nonetheless impressed me. Referee Mike Jones.

A thoroughly professional performance, no histrionics, no excessive interference in the game and not a single questionable decision. He quite rightly ignored Watford’s appeals for a penalty, immediately prior to Alexis’ opening goal and he allowed advantage when Mesut was brought down in the box with the ball breaking to our Chilean dynamo.

He was prepared to quietly warn players about their conduct rather than flash cards in all directions. The three players booked, Gomes, Nyom and, in particular, Mertesacker can have no complaints.

It is easy to knock referees, many of whom seem to think that fans go to games and pay a lot of money to see them act the goat, but you are right – credit to Mike Jones and I hope he gets a pat on the back for his contribution to a good game.

After the game when asked about changes for the Bayern match Wenger replied “maybe one or two”.

Which one or two is open to question. With Macy on the bench yesterday,I can’t see any reason for dropping (resting) Petr Cech. Of the back four perhaps Gabriel in for Merts whose pace is getting slower by the day.

For the rest, up until Ramsey got his first goal of the season I would have thought the Ox would take his place, but maybe the goal will be the confidence booster he needed.

So unless Alexis shows any signs of his hip injury or excessive fatigue that should be that.

I like the call for Bellerin for MOTM; he did play better that we would expect of him. That surely should be the yard stick by which we judge, if this isn’t then Cech should get it for keeping a clean sheet, after all it is impossible for him to do any better, but no one is saying that he was MOTM.
Sanchez played his normal good game, maybe a tad less than the performance he put in against Manu but still outstanding.
Ozil had a very good second half but not so much in the first and Ramsey needed to put that first golden chance away for him to claim the accolade.
You see, it has to be Bellerin, he was remarkably better than what we would normally expect from him.

chas @ 7:36 a.m. – I see you have maintained the ‘assists spreadsheet’ so I’ve worked out the goals and reinstated the goals and assists figures widget.

I was just too much for mew to continue with all the figures last season and as a result they were often weeks behind and therefore of little use – but I reckon between us we can maintain the G and As 🙂